Fish-hook.



No. 885,766. PATENTED NOV. 13, 1906.

F. STREHLOW.

FISH HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 5, 1906.

wztnesses gnueutur UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 13, 1906.

Application filed July 5, 1906. Serial No. 824,727.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERMAN F. STREHLow, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Oasselton, in the county of Cass and State of NorthDakota, have invented a new and Improved Fish-Hook, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to interchangeable hooks; and the inventionconsists in a socket ada ted to receive the enlarged shank of a hook,the socket being adapted to be secured direct to the fish-line or to anartificial bait, which socket is provided with means to engage the shankof the hook and securely hold the same.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of an ordinaryspoon-hook with my improvement secured thereto. Fig. 2 is a view of ahook provided with a square shank. Fig. 3 is a view of my improvedsocket adapted to hold three removable hooks. Fig. 4 is a cross-sectionon the line A A of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is an improved artificial bait, withhooks secured thereto, with my improved device. Fig. 6 is an end view ofthe spoon shown in Fig. 1.

Similar reference-numerals refer to like parts throughout the severalviews.

When the hook proper of the ordinary spoon-hook is broken, it isordinarily useless to try to repair the same, which is also true withother artificial bait. It is very desirable that some means be providedwhereby a broken hook may be replaced. A device to accomplish this isillustrated in the accompanying drawings and consists generally of thesheath or socket 1, having a cut-out portion 2, the side of the sheathadjacent thereto be ing bent down to form a spring that will enter thenotch 3 of the enlarged shank on the hook. This spring may becomparatively large, as shown at 4, or shorter, as at 5, its form beingin each case especially adapted to the style of the hook to be engaged.The hook-shanks will be of any desired form, either square, as at 6 inFig. 2, 'or triangular, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The sheath may besecured to a spoon 7 or to an eye 8, to which the line is attached.

In Fig. 5 I have shown an improved artificial bait, which is formed oftwo parts 9 and 10, pivoted together at 11 and normally held apart bythe spring 12, secured to the part 10. The parts are provided with fins,as shown, which will cause the bait to revolve when pulled through thewater. The two parts have each a sheath 1 to receive the hooks 13. Thehooks are so positioned that their points will engage behind the rearends of the parts 9 and 10, and so prevent the spring 12 from swingingthe parts apart; but when a fish strikes the parts 9 and 10 will bepressed together and the hooks will project sufficiently to hook intothe fish.

To remove a book from the artificial bait, it is necessary only toinsert the point of a knife-blade under the tongue 4 and raise it out ofthe notch in the hook-shank, when the hook may be easily removed. Itwill be seen that this method of securing a hook may be employed withalmost all the various types of artificial bait now on the market.

Having now explained myimprovement, what I claim as my invention, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a fish-hook, the combination of the hook provided with an angularshank having a notch, an angular sheath or socket for said shank havinga spring-tongue adapted to engage in said notch to secure the shank inthe sheath, and means connected to said sheath adapted to have a linesecured thereto.

2. The combination of a fish-hook pro vided with an angular shank havinga notch, an angular sheath or socket for said shank having aspring-tongue adapted to engage in said notch to secure the shank in thesheath, and an artificial bait secured to said shank and adapted to havea line secured thereto.

3. In a duplex fish-hook, the combination of an angular shank of a hookprovided with a notch, a sheath for said shank provided with aspring-tongue to engage in said notch and secure the shank in thesheath, a baitrepresenting plate attached to said sheath, a shank foranother hook and an elongated spoon attached thereto, said plate andelongated spoon being hinged together, and a spring secured to one ofsaid hinged members and pressing against the other.

4. In a fish-hook, the combination of a shank having a notch, a sheathfor the same provided with a tongue to engage in said name to thisspecification in the presence of two subscrlblng witnesses.

notch, a bait-representing plate attached HERMAN STREHLOW' 5 thereto,said plates being hinged together, Witnesses:

and a spring to hold them se arated. J. E. HEDLUND,

In testimony whereof I ave signed my i H. O. ANDERSON.

